PD POLLS | Pakatan Harapan candidate for the Port Dickson by-election Anwar Ibrahim had the unlikeliest group of supporters arriving to back him up in the constituency - staff of the Sungai Buloh Prison where he was formerly incarcerated.

The PKR president-elect tweeted photos of him with the men, all clad in blue T-shirts bearing the Royal Malaysian Police (PDRM) logo and the "All Riders Community" wording on the front of their shirts.

Anwar captioned the photos: "Staff of Sungai Buloh Prison came to PD to provide moral support."

Anwar had served a major part of his three sentences – for a corruption and two sodomy convictions - at the Sungai Buloh Prison since 1998.

He was first jailed on what Anwar and his supporters insist were trumped-up sodomy and abuse of power charges raised by then prime minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad.

In 2015, he was jailed again after the then prime minister Najib Abdul Razak's administration filed a second sodomy charge against him.

Anwar was accorded a full royal pardon less than a week after Pakatan Harapan took over the federal administration on May 9.

'A full pardon'

Last night, Anwar pinned to his Twitter account a video of his full royal pardon being read out to him by Prisons Department director-general Zulkifli Omar at his home in Segambut on May 16.

Zulkifli reads: "It is thus ruled that Anwar Ibrahim is given a full pardon and considered as someone who has never committed any offences and thus freed with immediate effect."

The director-general then goes on to say that there will be no documentation involved from that point onwards as Anwar is considered innocent and that they were relaying the pardon on behalf of the Yang di-Pertuan Agong Sultan Muhammad V.

No signing of documents will be involved, Zulkifli said, adding that Anwar is a free, innocent man.

Staf penjara Sg Buloh ke PD berikan sokongan moral. #HarapanPDHarapanMalaysia pic.twitter.com/nf2K79hiDF

— Anwar Ibrahim (@anwaribrahim) October 5, 2018